A few things
about yesterday's tragedy:
There is no
way any gun legislation either way would've done a bit of good. Experience has shown that if a crazy like
that wants to get an automatic weapon and blow away a bunch of folks he'll get
it. Consider the mess they had in France
some months back with the Muslim fanatic killing Jews and soldiers with real
military weaponry in a country where possession of said weaponry is
illegal. From what we've been told so
far about this fellow's apartment it sounds like he was also in possession of
illegal explosives, whether they were homemade or not, so all those laws did not
work.
On the other
hand had those with valid CCW permits been allowed in the theater it still
wouldn't have made any real difference in the end unless one had an armor
piercing load, which is illegal to all but military and police personnel. Mr. Holmes went in suited up in full tactical
gear and armor, so the loads most people who carry would've been pretty much
useless.
I don't
often watch TV these days. But last
night my wife and I were and she switched the TV to the O'Reilly factor when it
came on unasked. I've watched him many
times in the past and there are times I both agree and disagree with him. But last night when he pointed out that there
was no way any political policy would've made a difference he was dead on,
pardon the pun.
Yesterday we
had a family tragedy when an uncle died.
But the nation had a tragedy when somebody mentally ill equipped to
handle the pressure of a PhD. program went into melt-down and decided to vent his
anger by taking as many lives as he could.
That it was a theater packed with children and that they figure
prominently among the victims makes the tragedy doubly hard for all. Unfortunately as man continues his fall such
tragedies have become like the weather, something which one hopes they won't be
struck with but which all know can happen anywhere or at anytime.
Our hearts
go out to those who lost loved ones in Colorado yesterday.
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